CROSSROADS: Uncovering the Histories of the Built Environment in the Americas and the Global South
Dates: February 17 and 18, 2023
Place: The School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin
CROSSROADS:
Uncovering the Histories of the Built Environment in the Americas and the Global South
The first quarter of the XXI Century needs—demands—architectural historians to proactively distill the networks of power that plague the discipline. We are here to reimagine the discipline’s boundaries and decipher its intersections by foregrounding the
plurality of political and economic actors at work in constructing the architectural narratives of the Americas and the Global South from the twentieth century to present. The paradox makes it even more interesting for the Americas belong both to the Global South and the Global North, problematizing the traditional geographical demarcation of our knowledge base.
This two-day symposium invites doctoral students and emerging scholars in architectural history and allied fields to present current research that de-centers the individual architect, the individual building, embracing instead the crossroads of the
overlooked evidence. We are building an alliance of scholars whose research redefines the writing and teaching of architectural histories with this more inclusive future in mind.
Submission guidelines:
Please submit one document with your title and abstract (750 words) and one document with your current biography (250 words) to utsoa.symposium@utexas.edu before the extended deadline of September 30, 2022. Submissions should be formatted in PDF.
The symposium is planned as an in-person event at UT Austin. Complete presentations should be twenty minutes in length and will be followed by Q&A panels. Selected applicants will be notified of their acceptance no later than October 15, 2022. Questions and further inquiries should be directed to utsoa.symposium@utexas.edu.